Clarisse Hahn's Kurdish Lover Opens in Theaters, Gerilla at Jousse Entreprise

Clarisse Hahn's feature-length documentary Kurdish Lover premieres in theaters on September 12. Simultaneously, her work Gerilla is on view at Galerie Jousse Entreprise in Paris, and Los Desnudos is screening at Mac/Val until September 23. The artist, born in Paris in 1973, uses a camera to explore tensions within communities, from her own Protestant family to Kurdish guerrillas. Kurdish Lover, which won awards at the Traces de Vie festival and in Brazil, documents her integration into a Kurdish family in a war-torn region. Hahn emphasizes finding the right distance between intimacy and observation, often filming moments of crisis. She also plans a fiction film about Kurdish guerrillas, based on real accounts, avoiding war film clichés.